European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday january 25, 1950 nationalists get Load of surplus tanks Taipei Jan. 24 up another shipment of . Army surplus tanks were rolling Down the docks a kaon song yesterday and More were on the 200 will arrive in 30 Days. New arrivals included m8 tanks armed with 75-mm Cannon. They will provide the nationalists with some of the heaviest firing Power Ever used against the communists. These tanks have already been reared overhauled and put in fighting trim. They were ready to Roll from the docks into the train ing centers or into fighting position. A such equipment was purchased out of the nationalist government s own resources through private agencies in the . The . Government is not directly involved in any manner. China reds reported holding 4 nationalists in slaying London Jan 24 ins chinese communists in a report received n London last night said four High chinese nationalist officials have been arrested and charged with murdering the brother of communist Leader Mao tse Tung. Mao tse min an Active communist like his brother was killed in 1m3. China news Agency reports said the four also were accused of the murder of Chen Tan Chiu communist party Central committee member and Lin Chi to Dean of Sinkiang College the four men were not identified. French Council in uproar As red proposes Mutiny Paris Jan. 24 ins the French Council of the Republic was thrown into an uproar yesterday when a communist member urged French soldiers in indo China to Mutiny rather than obey any order to fight the chinese reds. The upper chamber had to be adjourned when order could not be restored after the statement of communist Georges Laramie. Trial starts in . For Coplon russian cont. From Page i courtroom As Ryan questioned prospective jurors. Ryan announced the defense will be allowed 14 peremptory Chal Lenges the government six. Three alternate jurors will be selected Pale faced and looking Small and than miss Coplon sat with her head on her hand studying the faces of the salesmen. Sofce never even glanced at go bitches who sat six feet away. His counsel Abraham l. Pomerantz renewed application for a separate trial for go bitches but Ryan denied the motion. Pomerantz asked permission for Yuri Novikov attache of the rus Sian embassy who is not a lawyer to sit at the defense table this re quest was granted. No cud for us tars London Jan. 24 of the admiralty said today it has decided to discontinue the Sale of chewing tobacco on. Ships of the Royal Navy. Capehart hits Truman on Hiss Case Washington Jan. 24 up sen. Homer e. Capehart bind yesterday demanded that president Truman apologize to the people for calling the Alger Hiss spy investigation a red herring during the 1948 election Campaign. Now that Hiss has been convicted Capehart said in a Senate speech or. Truman also should fire Secretary of state Dean Acheson and ask supreme court Justice Felix Frankfurter to resign because they stood up for Hiss Capehart s blast highlighted round of Republican attacks on the administration in connection with the Case. Truman Aid asked sen. Kure Mundt member of the House committee on in american activities when it exposed the Hiss charges said or. Truman should now help Congress ferret out others in and out of the state department whose soviet leanings have contributed so greatly to the deplorable maiming of our foreign rep. Harold h Elde r-i1lalso a member of the committee said he believed a number of other rus Sian espionage agents Are still run Ning Loose in this he called for prompt Justice depart ment action against them. Lewis granted court delay cant from Page 1 strike stretched into the steel Industry today squeezing 500 workers out of jobs. The continued walkout of 63.000 United mine workers forced the Crucible steel corp. To reduce operations at its Midland pa., Plant and a corporation spokesman said the total rendered wordless May reach 1,000 by the end of the week if the Coal shortage continues meanwhile a spokesman for the general motors corp. Said his firm has been notified by steel companies that they May have to shut Down this week for Lack of Coal. General motors would have to shut Down in 30 Days if its steel Supply were Cut off he said. Diehard miners in six states grimly Clung to the Union tradition of no contract no work turning deaf ears to the pleas of their chief John l. Lewis. Career ends j1 a a Rossellini registers Austria annulment Rome Jan. 24 up italian movie director Roberto Ros Euini took the final Legal step yesterday to Dis solve his marriage and make him free to wed screen Star Ingrid Berg Man when her divorce is final. Accompanied by his attorney Gino Sotis Rossellino registered his aus Trian annulment which was recognized by a Turin court Jan 14, the registration was made with the mayor of Civitavecchi near Rome because Rossellini and mar cel la de March is were married there in 1936. Mercy slaying trial begins Bridgeport conn., Jan. 24 a Carol Ann Paight composed and dry eyed went on trial today accused of second degree murder in the so called mercy slaying of her policeman father. Penalty upon conviction is life imprisonment. Defense attorney David f Goldstein said the 21-year-old College girl would plead temporary insanity a mental Shock brought on when she Learned her beloved s0--year-od father. Carl was incurably sit of cancer. Her father was ice med sept. 23. A panel of 26 prospective jurors was sworn in As the trial opened. Carol calmly walked into the crowded courtroom just before proceedings began. Her Mother eat in the front Row of courtroom seats. The state charges Carol stood by last fall when her father a sergeant of Stamford conn., police entered Stamford Hospital for a diagnosis she is accused of walking out when she Learned he was doomed with cancer and returning a Short time later with his own service revolver. He was shot in the head As he slept. He never knew the nature of his illness. William t. Babcock. Devotion to duty William Babcock Dies in Berlin of heart attack cont. From Page 1 for burial in Arlington National cemetery. Allies and germans in the four Power City joined the american Community in mourning the passing of one the oldest in Point of service and Best loved members of he my later Hico staff. Bab cock had served with the occupation since its Start. He had been on the Berlin sector staff since january 1946. Col Babcock s passing comes As a Shock to the entire Allied and German Community of Berlin maj Gen Maxwell d. Taylor . Berlin commander said. Occupation Veteran a Veteran of the earliest Days of the occupation he brought to the problems of the City a Clear mind a warm heart and a tireless Devo Tion to duty. It was this latter Quality a willingness to work to the break ing Point and beyond which cos him his life. He died a servant of his country and of this City to which he gave so the Day following the German surrender at Rheims Babcock was sent As a sheaf staff member to Frankfurt where he became chief Public safety officer for the . Zone. Joined Howiey s staff he remained in this position and also in charge of zone Denali fiction activities until the sheaf and Omegus staffs were merged in january 1946. He then joined col later Brig Gen Frank l. Howley s staff As Public safety officer for Berlin. On May i. 1946, he became Deputy director org Berlin sector the position he has held since. Babcock was born in new Haven Conn Jan in 1893, and was educated in schools of that state. Served in world War i during world War i he served in France and Germany with the 1st inf div. On his return to the . In 1919, he entered the new London conn., police department and began to study Law at North Eastern University. Continuing in police work after completion of his Law studies he became commanding officer of the department in 1932 and remained in the position until he was called to Active duty with the Connecticut National guard in 1940. Until he assignment to sheaf in february 1844, Babcock organized and operated the military govern ment school at it. Custer Mich just before a Day he was assigned to the Forward Echelon of sheaf at Portsmouth As Public safety officer and la or assisted m the reorganization of police and Ore departments in France and Belgium. Denfeld ousted legally Matthews tells Senate Washington Jan. 24 up Secretary of the Navy Francis p. Matthews be off an angry floor fight in the Senate yesterday by insist ing that adm Louis e. Denfeld was legally ousted As chief of naval operations despite a presidential commission re appointing him for two years. In a statement read to the Senate by chairman Millard Tydings d my of the armed services com Mittee Matthews said Denfeld s commission did not count because it was irregularly delivered to him by president Trumar s naval aide. Rear adm Robert Dennison. Sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy a wis promptly charged that Matthews either is deliberately lying or is so incompetent thai he does not know what he i Disir ,." he demanded a Senate Tydings supported int Chews to the Hilt and Asci used Mccarthy of stirring up a tempest in a Teapot. The Maryland Serin Lor pointed out that the Navy already is somewhat Demerau Zed by the service unification fright and. To add insult to injury its rms i to battleship is now stuck in the therefore he said the s e a .1 e should Stop wrangling Over Den Feld s ouster and Cimon a adm of r rest p. Sherman a in of of x Ival operations. He said however that it flu us to the armed service x. A whole to decide whether a u thew Shou d he Cam a on it to rpt to in a full inquiry. Russ still slow traffic cont. From Page 1 blockade to the Waterways said four barges running Between Ber Lin and the West were refused Sage saturday at the russian obis Felde checkpoint on the Border of East and West Germany. This was the first interference with Barge traffic since the Block Ade of nerves began last wednes Day after americans ordered seizure of the Headquarters in the . Sector of the soviet controlled railway administration. The head quarters was turned Back saturday. Charles a. Dix american trans port chief in Berlin said two barges were bound or Belgium from Ber Lin with ferrous and nonferrous metals. Two other barges were halted and refused passage As they attempted to enter the soviet zone in route to Berlin from the West. Criticize travel documents the soviets said the barges travel documents were not in order. Sim Ilar charges have been used to bar some trucks from travelling on the autobahn connecting the West and Berlin. Most trucks however were subject Only to delaying inspections which held them Back 20 hours each and jammed them in Long lines waiting for clearance. The russians allowed Only Between two to six trucks hourly to pass instead of the usual number of Between 15 and 20. In contrast to this situation at Helmstedt on the Border trucks travelling from Berlin to the West proceeded without undue delays. However As at Helmstedt several trucks were refused passage on the grounds of improper documentation police said. Repatriates taken off train at Frankfurt station Frankfurt Jan. 24 apj-. Officials last night ordered 21 Gor Man jewish repatriates off the Berlin bound military train shortly before its departure. The action presumably was de signed to avoid a possible quarrel with the russians at the Border checkpoint but officials said the repatriates papers were not in order. Sunday night the russians stopped a Frankfurt bound army train for six hours at their checkpoint with a lengthy investigation of the travel papers of three non american sengers. The repatriates will be sent to Berlin later officials said. Dec Road report Heidelberg Jan. M special the Neucom Provost marshal today reported roads Ley in spots in the Munich sont Hofen and Stuttgart area. 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